When I first arrived on Wall Street during the early 1980s, some of the old veterans who worked through the 1929 stock market crash were just retiring and passed their stories on to me before they left. One was my old friend, Sir John Templeton, founder of the Templeton funds, who often hosted me for
While in New York waiting to board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 to sail for Southampton, England, a few years ago, I decided to check out the Bay Ridge address near the Verrazano Bridge where my father grew up. I took a limo over to Brooklyn and knocked on the front door. I told the owner
“It’s easier to get out of Cuba than to get out of Facebook,” said a market analyst.
“It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” – Said Founder and CEO of Tesla Elon Musk
“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.” – Said CEO of Twitter Elon Musk
Now that you know how to make money in the market, I’m going to teach you how to hang on to it. There is no point in booking winning trades only to lose money by making careless beginner’s mistakes. So today, I am going to talk about risk control. The first goal of risk control
'There is one peculiarity about mass psychology in that when you are in a bubble, you can't see it. Bubbles are invisible when you are inside the bubble,' said the charming Jim Dines, of The Dines Letter.
“Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.” - Co-Founder and CEO of Box Aaron Levie
“We have few, if any spare tires left,” said Mohamed El-Erian, CIO of mega bond house PIMCO, about the nail studded road ahead for the US economy.
“To pursue the mosquito theory as a cause of yellow fever would be a complete waste of government money,” said an army doctor in 1898.